Hi all, I’ve identified few issues around the recent changes that I don’t know how we can fix or improve but I hope to get feedback from the community.
I understand that you may disagree with what I’m sharing which is alright, even in your disagreement I hope that you don’t take an offence on that, that is certainly not my aim. I personally want to the community to be felt welcoming so that we can attract and retain new contributors and have a nice environment for everyone. Some observations and comments: - Generally those of us who have worked for long in the community or have colleagues from dayjob working in the ACS community - we have better chances in getting their PRs merged; for new contributors this pattern is not encouraging and certainly not welcoming if their PRs get closed. - The recent drive to use Github PRs seems to be really working great for us, but still the requirements of at least 2 +1s/LGTM, unit tests and pedantic bike-shedding has cost us new developers/contributors and kills the joy of programming for some; for experienced and commercially backed developers this makes sense. I personally try to be pragmatic and lenient on code reviews as long as smoke tests (Travis) pass. - Contributions are process-oriented that cost time and effort; there have been initiative to satisfy the tool but not the human, and not optimizing on developer time. - What should we do to get more developer contributors and how to attract hobbyists or casual contributors. Regards.
